So far, we have been explaining how to enable Client Application Services for live connection with the remote authentication and role providers. In the last section of this article, we will show how to configure an application to make use of offline mode which allows your application to authenticate users by accessing a cache of the credentials information stored locally on the application’s machine.

For the time being, you still need to do some configurations on your application to make it work with a none-offline mode. To do so, access the Advanced button located on the Services tab. Once the Advanced button is clicked, a popup windows pops up as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Advanced settings form

To disable offline mode, make sure to uncheck all the checkboxes and to set the Role service cache timeout to 0, without this value you will not be able to retrieve roles-related information for the user. In the next article we will see how to enable offline mode for your application.